diff --git a/examples/new_project_templates/lightning_module_template.py b/examples/new_project_templates/lightning_module_template.py
index 4d6a402f33..30db6f06d4 100644
--- a/examples/new_project_templates/lightning_module_template.py
+++ b/examples/new_project_templates/lightning_module_template.py
@@ -161,8 +161,10 @@ class LightningTemplateModel(LightningModule):
         # when using multi-node we need to add the datasampler
         try:
             if self.hparams.nb_gpu_nodes > 1:
+                print('-'*100)
+                print(self.trainer.world_size, self.trainer.proc_rank)
+                print('-'*100)
                 train_sampler = DistributedSampler(dataset, num_replicas=self.trainer.world_size, rank=self.trainer.proc_rank)
-                print('using sampler')
         except Exception as e:
             print('no sampler')
             train_sampler = None